Dell RTO mandate said to be a stealth layoff, for women::Employees feel frustrated by lack of communication and bosses’ inability to tell them which offices are open

  • @[email protected]
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    3411 months ago

    Yeahhhhh I am not a lawyer but I think that might actually be illegal, specifically because of the explicitly different treatment based simply on gender.

    • @T156
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      711 months ago

      Someone might be able to argue constructive dismissal too, if the job that they get after leave is worse than the job that they had before they went on maternity leave.

    • @ohlaph
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      711 months ago

      Sounds like clear gender discrimination.

    • Dran
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      -1511 months ago

      Would it still be illegal if it’s based on time? Like I’ll make this up but suppose their policy was men get 2 weeks paternity leave, but women get 2 months maternity. It might actually make sense then.

      • @[email protected]
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        1911 months ago

        Male parents are also parents. We are no longer in the era of the “stay at home mom”.

        • Dran
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          711 months ago

          No, but we are still in the era of mom has to physically annihilate her body in order to produce a child, and also in the era of mom requires actual physical recovery time before performing strenuous physical activity. I get the equity in offering dads extra leave to help take care of mom but it’s disingenuous to suggest that they both have the same requirements.

          • phillaholic
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            411 months ago

            It should be identical leave for both parents regardless. This is one reason women are paid less, they miss more time than men which delays their career progression.

      • @WeeSheep
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        811 months ago

        Everyone gets the same time now

        • Dran
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          111 months ago

          If everyone gets the same time then yeah that’s total horseshit

        • Dran
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          011 months ago

          I don’t think it is unreasonable to tell a man or a woman that if you take 3-6 months off that someone else might take your role.

          • @[email protected]
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            111 months ago

            But they’re not telling men that, only women. And that is unreasonable no matter how hard you struggle to justify it.

            • @[email protected]
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              111 months ago

              I would hope if a man had enough babies fast enough his stacked leave would leave his position in limbo.

              • @SinningStromgald
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                111 months ago

                All the policies I have seen provide X amount of time per year for parental/maternal leave not per child.